Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-07-20

that mo persons shall manufacture LOT
sale, or sell or keep for sale, as a beverage,
any intoxicating liquors whatever, includ.
ing wine, ale aud beer" The amendment
further provides that the General Assem-
bly, shall by law prescribe regulations for
the enforcement OF prohibition, q snaii
thereby provide suitable penalties for the
violation of the provisions thereof.
1t is now settled that typhoid fever
germs are carried almost wholly in water,
andthat while freezing does not destroy
40. that filtration is wholly Ineffective for
the publication of water bearing these
germs, so that the water in q we'll may be
infected from sinks, &C., at a considerable
distance. With these facts definitely de-
termined, it ought to be easy to reduce the
danger of typhoid fever to a minimum
by care.
The fight over the admission of Utah
q q State, will probably be the most excit-
ing issue in the Fiftieth Congress. lnsome
respects it will be similar to the greatstr
ole for the admission Of Kansas under a
Dro-slavery constitution, which disrupted
the Democratic party and fastened the war
between the North and South. It'll claim
ed that the Democrats have intrigued to
Offset the Republican preponderance in the
United States Senate by the creation OF
two new senators.
At Wellborn, Texas, last Wednesday
evening, while w. E. F%arquhar and DR..
+. Ewes were jointly discussing the prohi-
bition amendment, Farquhar, who had
concluded his argument againstthe amend
ment, became enraged at the remarks OF
DR.. Ewes, who favored it, and tired at MN
with a Ballard rifle. The ball missed It's
=. ~-l l1lool - a 1uol inSt hlhInd
the Speakers head. DR.. Ewes was not
disconnected by his opponents attempt to
take his life, and concluded his remark
amid prolonged applause.
~ The new pistol law in Texas, which
went into effect on July 4, Furnishes by fine
and imprisonment all persons who carry
on or about their persons, saddle or saddle
bags. a pistol, dirk, or any other deadly
weapon. And to q drummer who asked
ifhe could not carry a pistol in'his travel
ing bag, the Galveston NeDs replies no,
unless ne has his travelling bag checked,
as it is the evident purpose of the law to
prevent people from having pistols within
easy reach. If this law is faithfully en-
forced, Texas will be a new country in a
few years.
- Declaring that the demagogue's voca-
ton now is gone, the Philadelphia Times
saws: Even fools as we'll as knaves, who
play their selfish parts in the ranks OF the
honored veterans of the land, should learn
from the hearty reunions of the Blue and
the Gray, not only at Gettysburg, but at
4 various other places North and South, that
the vocation ofthe demagogue and disturb
er is gone and gone forever. The SOLDIERS
who honor the name are at peace, and be,
tween soldiers and people the sectional
brawlers will be suddenly squelched every
time they come to the front.
Even in Kentucky, the State where
disputes are settled with the rifle, and
where it is in some sense the practice to
shoot first and explain afterwards, says he
Columbia Record, the right man gets shot
some times. A story now comes from that
State to the effect that while a company OF
farmers were %journeying to Cot, IN Ed
munson comfy, two OF the party lett the
main body, saying they were going out
Of the way to settle an old grudge against
a n%eighbOring farmer and his SON. The
farmer and his son did the settling, how
ever, by shooting to death the meddling
grudge holders. If all Kentucky grudges
were settled as justly as this n seems to
have been, the crop of Kentucky grudges
would soon prove a fiat failure.
- Scottsboro, Ala, is all torn up over a
big sensation which has just come to light.
In August, 1884, George Smith, George
Hughes and Asbury Hughes were hanged
for burning a barn belonging to one Por-
ter, on Sand Mountain. The men were
all convicted on the testimony of the Por-
ter women, who swore positively against
them. Adam Freeman was sent to the
%penitentiary a short time ago for forging
an order for a pair of shoes. He died a
few days ago, and just before his death, he
called the penitentiary officials around
him and confessed that he had burned
the Porter house, and that the men who
had been executedkneW nothing about it.
The confession has created a profound SEN
sation.
- The latest statement in regard to Max
well, the st. Louis trunk murderer, is to
the effect that his attorney, Mr.. W. Faunt-
leroy, has finally thrown up the sponge
for his client, who is to die on the gallows
on August 26. To a reporter, who met
him, Mr.. Fauntleroy said he would
make no further effort for his client, Hugh
Mottram Brooks. He said that he had
determined not to attempt to carry the
case, to the United States Supreme Court
because the judges would have to be con-
WINGED that there vas a constitutional
point involved in the case and that he did
not think he could convince them of this.
Healso said that he would not apply to the
Governor because he believed that in a
case involving the notoriety and prejudice
of this one the Governor would not inter-
fere. He said he saw nothing he could do
but let the law take its course.
The Baltimore Herald recently pub
lished a story, purporting to emanate from
Jefferson Davis, to the effect that an at
tempt was made to assasinate him while
he was President of the Confederate States.
The story has created some stir among
public men, but it is merely regarded as a
newspaper fabrication without any founda-
ton at all. The Hon. Roger A. Pryor,
who was a member of the Confederate
Congress, but now q prominent member
of the New York Bar, d%enounces the
whole story as ridiculous on its face. He
further says "The narrative does not
sound like Mr.. Davis. He was not a boast
full man, and there is a tone of braggado-
clio in it that is not characteristic of him.
An attempt to assassinate the President of
the C%onfederacy would have been heard
of and would have shocked the whole
C~onfederacy. My belief is that the article
ton" Ex-Governor A. G.. Curtin, of
Pennsylvania, says: "There is not one
word of truth in what is said to have
been uttered by Jefferson Davis about me:
I v pardoned q desperate with the
understanding that he would assassinate
Mr.. Davis, and I had not the money per-